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Ultra-Black Is the New Black
Scientists are setting dark traps from which light cannot escape. But nature already has built a few of her own.
November 11, 2019
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The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology’ Review: Beauty, in an Instant
The Polaroid camera provided fertile ground for creative invention.
November 5, 2019
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MIT’s ‘The Polaroid Project’ traces the pre-digital influence of instant photo technology
A photograph is its own reality: a flat object, usually rectangular, that renders as two dimensions the four that make up the space-time continuum.
October 24, 2019
Layers of Connection: Becca Albee
In Becca Albee’s work, the overlooked residues that escape conventional narratives are equally as important as the information coalescing in history.
October 24, 2019
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Art by the Numbers
At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both.
October 23, 2019
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The Surprising Origin Of A Color Darker Than Vantablack
In September, 2019, scientists at MIT unveiled the “blackest black” material to date, which was made using carbon nanotubes. That’s the same material used to make Vantablack, which was once considered the world’s darkest material.
October 21, 2019
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At MIT List, Alicja Kwade’s ‘In Between Glances’ Asks Whether We Can Believe Our Eyes
In Alicja Kwade’s world, nothing is what it may seem.
October 15, 2019
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New England’s most fascinating museum shows for fall
Fresh off a yearlong commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop, Berlin-based sculptor Kwade brings her playful, monumental modernism to Cambridge with a new solo show.
October 10, 2019
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MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER NAMES NEW PUBLIC ART CURATOR AND ASSISTANT CURATOR
Christopher Ketcham appointed as associate curator of the center’s public art and permanent collection. Selby Nimrod promoted from curatorial assistant to assistant curator for exhibitions.
September 25, 2019
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Ensamble Studio to receive 2019 RIBA Charles Jencks Award
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Wednesday 18 September) named Ensamble Studio, led by architects Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril, as the recipient of the 2019 RIBA Charles Jencks Award.
September 23, 2019
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Portable ‘palace’ to be showcased at Sharjah Museum of Islamic Culture
Sharjah Museums Authority (SMA) is celebrating heritage in the Mena region with a portable “palace” made of recycled fabrics using the art of reverse appliqué.
September 17, 2019
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Sorry, Anish Kapoor: MIT Scientists Made the Blackest Black Ever Invented, and an Artist Just Used It to Do Something Magical
Coated with the new super-black, a $2 million diamond has become the gem that absorbs all light.
September 17, 2019
”List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi“ at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce “List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi“, the artist’s first solo exhibition at a US institution.
September 5, 2019
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Artist Will Make $2M Diamond Disappear Into a ‘Flat Black Spot’
She’ll use technology that mimics the visual effects of a black hole.
September 4, 2019
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ALICJA KWADE
Alicja Kwade’s confounding sculptures challenge perceived realities and destabilize systems of measurement and value, unsettling viewers with mirrors and sculpted facsimiles that appear to transform objects and materials before our eyes.
September 3, 2019
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“I’m not a nice girl – I’m a photographer”
Berenice Abbott began her career as Man Ray’s darkroom assistant in 1920’s Paris, then returned to New York to take the pictures that made her name – dazzling.
September 1, 2019
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The Ticket: What’s happening in the local arts world
Futurity Island: This installation, conceived by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, is a musical instrument built from water and sewer pipes — tools originally used to shape nature to humanity’s purposes.
August 29, 2019
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10 Art Exhibits Worth Catching This Fall
Sculptor Alicja Kwade is best known for works using common, but symbolically significant materials like rocks, lamps and clocks, which she arranges in site-specific compositions to create mysterious landscapes.
August 26, 2019
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Rising UAE Artist Analyzes Social Mores in Her First U.S. Institutional Show
MIT List Visual Arts Center’s List Projects series is known for featuring young and emerging artists that break aesthetic barriers. This fall’s List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi is no exception.
August 19, 2019
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Neri Oxman has all the answers
Even before receiving her PhD from MIT in design and computation in 2010, Oxman, now 43, had come to be considered one of the leading figures in her field. Since then her acclaim has only grown. Her 2015 TED Talk has been … Continued
August 9, 2019
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Brandon Clifford creates heavy concrete sculptures that sway and roll
American designer Brandon Clifford has drawn inspiration from megalithic architecture to create concrete sculptures that join together like a jigsaw puzzle.
August 1, 2019
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Bursting Onto the Stage Like a ‘Bat Out of Hell’
The musical based on the grandiose Meat Loaf album shines a light on its songwriter, Jim Steinman, and the many twists and turns it took to get both projects made.
July 25, 2019
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Vivid And Lush, Farah Al Qasimi’s Photographs Draw On The Imagination At MIT List
Farah Al Qasimi creates lush, vividly detailed photographs that leave almost everything to the imagination.
July 25, 2019
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Emirati Artist Farah Al Qasimi to Open First Solo Show in America
“It’s been exciting to learn how to let a story unfold slowly,” says Farah Al Qasimi. The Emirati artist is speaking of her first long-form video piece “Um al Naar (Mother of Fire, 2019)” that will soon showcase at a solo … Continued
July 18, 2019
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Fairy tales, video games, and hard labor in this artist’s hallucinatory films
“Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse,” on view through July 28 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, follows last year’s “Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective” there.
July 17, 2019